Sentences with phrase «valuable predictive tool»
In modern medicine, traditional medicinal knowledge has proved to be a valuable predictive tool in bioprospecting projects — the R&D efforts conducted on biological resources to discover new drugs.
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However, while they are valuable tools in a broad range of fields, predictive models are still plagued by uncertainties, or errors, and a great deal of effort is directed at determining the extent and effects of these errors.
Now we have a valuable tool that, thanks to computer - based statistical analysis, can be used to broaden our predictive capabilities in a very wide range of applicative avenues, from biophysics to biomedicine.»
Since official pronouncements about an outbreak often lag weeks behind its spread, HealthMap's gauge of epidemic news online may prove valuable as a predictive tool.
The notion that a tool — an RCM — may possess shortcomings in its predictive skill, but simultaneously prove to be a valuable tool to support narratives that are relevant to policy making and spatial planning can in fact be extended to highlighting the difference between «climate predictions» and «climate scenarios».